London – On World Photography Day celebrated on August 19, Brazilian photographers have a lot to celebrate. In recent months, many professionals and amateurs have won or been finalists in major international competitions.
The latest winner was Verônica Alkmim França, who is among the 20 winners of the Female In Focus award.
Most of the photographs recognized in the competitions depict environmental issues and nature, but subjects such as sports, human relations and even literature are also among the photographs chosen by judges around the world.
Creation of World Photography Day
World Photography Day is celebrated on the date that the daguerreotype invented by Louis Daguerre and purchased by the French government was officially introduced at the French Academy of Sciences in 1839.
The mechanism, capable of fixing an image on a silver-plated copper plate, led to the emergence of more modern cameras, which were later replaced by digital ones.
Regardless of the medium in which the scenes are recorded, photography is a part of everyone’s life and immortalizes close family moments into great historical facts.
Amazon through the eyes of Brazilians
Among the great photographers of today is Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian who is known worldwide for his portrayal of social and environmental issues in Brazil.
But the world of photography also pays attention to other Brazilians who stand out in important international competitions.
One of them is Lalo de Almeida de Almeida from Folha de S.Paulo, an award-winning veteran.
He won the World Press Photo award in the Environment series category for a photo of the Pantanal fires in 2021. .
This year, Almeida was the winner of the same competition in photojournalism, the main competition in photojournalism, in the Long-Term Projects category, in recognition of a 12-year study depicting the societal impact of the destruction of the indigenous problem, the Amazon. one of the most dramatic.
The image shows members of the Munduruku community queuing to board the plane at Altamira Airport.
After protesting at the construction site of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River, they went to Brazil to present their demands to the government.
The black and white series was called ‘Amazon Dystopia’ and began in 2009 when Almeida traveled to document public hearings about the Belo Monte dam.
Another colorful and almost abstract vision of the Amazon was worth an award for a Brazilian, not just amateur and professional.
Raul Costa-Pereira is a biologist and professor at Campinas State University (Unicamp).
In 2021, he won the ‘Capturing Ecology’ competition organized by the British Ecological Society in London, with the Amazon Mosaic image resembling a painting.
The record of the Amazon palm was made in an environmental reserve north of Manaus and shows how tropical rainforest plants are colonized by an astonishing variety of organisms that grow on the surface of their leaves, such as epiphytic mosses, lichens and fungi.
Brazilian Letícia Valverdes was a finalist in the Unicef-sponsored 2021 Global Peace Photography Awards competition for her article “And now my children know”, in which Amazon showcases its problems and beauty in a series of manipulated images.
The photos were taken over 20 years and then transformed by him and his children using fire, gold, blood, earth and leaves.
Xingu Indians pictured in two photography awards
While Lalo and Letícia documented the problems in the Amazon, Rio Grande do Sul photographer Ricardo Teles received recognition twice this year for his work depicting the colors and customs of the inhabitants of Xingu National Park, a conservation model.
First prize was the Sony Photography Awards in April in the Sports category, featuring unusual scenes in sports photography: Quarup, a traditional Xingu Indian competition that is part of the ritual of veneration for the dead.
In July, she was announced as a finalist for the Global Peace Photography Awards, this time with the series Águas do Xingu, which chronicles the relationship of the indigenous peoples of the region with water.
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The representation of the colors of indigenous peoples also earned photographer André Porto an international award.
He came first with his record in the Culture category of the Chromatic Award. Sabrina Hunikuin is of Hunikuin ethnicity.
Picture is part of a series Documenting indigenous women during a march for the UOL in Brazil.
Another Brazilian took part in the same competition and came second in the Culture category.
Mayssa Cavalcanti Carneiro Leão is an amateur photographer and made a multicolored recording of Maracatu, with the sky going orange to blue and the reflection of vegetation in the water.
On land and at sea, the photo shows Brazilian fauna
Biologist Rafael Menegucci has seven years of experience recording animals and wild flora in natural settings, specializing in macrophotography of reptiles and amphibians.
And he has good reason to celebrate World Photography Day in 2022. Three photos were selected at the national stage of the Wiki Loves the World competition in January.
The winning image was the piercing and defiant gaze of a Papa Slug snake (Dipsas Algifrons) was captured in close-up at Serra do Mar State Park in São Paulo.
In addition to the snake photo, which was selected as one of the three best photos in the world by the competition jury, Menegucci also got two more highlights from the Brazilian stage of the competition, both taken in Serra do Mar State Park.
One of them shows a horned frog (Proceratophrys belzsebul), like a snake, he decided to face the photographer’s lens.
The marsupial frog (fritiziana_mitus), with bright eyes and half disguise in green landscape.
Like Menegucci, photographer Rodrigo Thomé began shooting from another professional experience, a diving instructor.
At the 2021 edition of the Ocean Photography Awards, Rodrigo Thomé was one of the finalists in the Sea Conservation category.
The photo chosen by the competition shows a dead fish in an abandoned net in Ilha Redonda, an environmental reserve in Rio de Janeiro.
Sports with extraordinary images and lighting effects
Another person who can celebrate World Photography Day in 2022 with a double dose is André Magarao. He received two awards this year for his extreme sports photos using artificial light effects.
Magarao won Sports Photographer of the Year at the International Photography Awards (IPA) and placed second in the Chromatic Awards for his ‘Action and Light’ series of extreme sports photography.
Here’s how he explains the use of the technique:
“It’s hard to play sports with artificial lights because the equipment isn’t really designed to be on a muddy mountain bike slope or kitesurf beach with winds of 20 miles per hour.”
Various themes in photography competitions
From the presentation of the daguerreotype that inspired World Photography Day to the present day, technology has advanced to the point where it allows to capture clear images of the sky never seen with the naked eye, using powerful telescopes and cameras.
This is the talent of Brazilian Flávio Fortunato, who competed in the final of the competition at the Greenwich Observatory in London. Alagoas.
He has devoted himself to astronomy photography for several years, giving tips for those who want to follow the same path and sharing images of the sky on his social networks.
photography and literature
Literary-inspired photographs brought recognition to a Brazilian and a Lithuanian residing in Brazil in 2022.
In the Wiki Loves Monuments competition, Brazil won first place from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, with a photo of an almost hidden gem that isn’t part of the itinerary of many visitors to Rio de Janeiro: Real Gabinete Português de Leitura.
The author of the click is Lithuanian photographer Donatas Dabravolskas, who has lived in the city since 2013 and has a large collection of spectacular views of Rio in his image banks.
It competed with more than 172 thousand images from 25 countries and also won the Brazilian stage of the competition with the photo of the monument in honor of Carlos Drummond de Andrade on the coast of Copacabana.
Another writer honored through photography was João Guimarães Rosa.
Brazilian photographer Wagner Pena was a finalist with a photograph in the 2002 Sony Photography Awards. He was selected among the finalists with a portrait in honor of his work “Grande Sertão: Veredas”.
“This is one of the most important works of Brazilian literature,” Pena said. “Rosa discovered Sertão on an expedition and brought riches of fauna and flora to her work, emphasizing geography by quoting real places.”
Wikipedia contest rewards photos of monuments and nature
Verônica Alkmim França, a Brazilian from Diamantina from Minas Gerais, who lives in Sweden, has been one of the winners of this year’s Female in Focus competition, demonstrating that her photographic talent can be hereditary.
He graduated from Fine Arts, Photography, Stage and Communication departments and did not participate in any photography competition.
But it has a past: it photographer Chichico Alkmin (1886-1978), whose collection he saved and curated for many years. material today Under the supervision of the Instituto Moreira Salles.
This year’s Female In Focus was Home themed. The woman depicted is inspired by Penelope from Greek mythology, who awaited her husband’s return from the war by weaving during the day and solving the business at night.
The photographs selected in honor of World Photography Day are published with the permission of the competition organizations and cannot be reproduced.
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source: Noticias
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